Posted on 07/12/2025 10:36:02 AM PDT by kiryandil
The Trump administration is suing the state of California to block animal welfare laws that it says unconstitutionally helped send egg prices soaring. But a group that spearheaded the requirements pushed back, blaming bird flu for the hit to consumers’ pocketbooks.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California on Wednesday, challenges voter initiatives that passed in 2018 and 2008. They require that all eggs sold in California come from cage-free hens.
The Trump administration says the law imposes burdensome red tape on the production of eggs and egg products across the country because of the state’s outsize role in the national economy.
“It is one thing if California passes laws that affects its own State, it is another when those laws affect other States in violation of the U.S. Constitution,” U.S. Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a statement Thursday. “Thankfully, President Trump is standing up against this overreach.”
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The Stupid Virus continues to infect California’s Government. Maybe people will vote them out of office in the next election ... riiiiiight
And CA prop 12 made bacon jump in price. All you pig farmers, ya you need to make your pens bigger so the pigs can move around. I don’t care if you have been doing it this way for a hundred years. What? Momma pig will step on and kill her babies? So what, now do as we say.
Why is the price of eggs in California or any laws related to poultry care the business of the Feds? Unless it can be proven it makes eggs unsafe for consumption.
Trump is way wrong on this one.
I am in favor of humane laws for livestock. It does make the flocks safer and less likely to contact disease. Not to mention better manure control.
Regulation of interstate trade is a federal function
The size of the California market forces their BS on other states.
That's unconstitutional.
The page linked to below has a map of U.S. states, rendered in blue for states with such egg-laying hens and pigs, and in grey for states not having such laws. 15 states have such laws. Click on a state to see the status of its laws.
Inflation is so cool! </sarcasm>
Find me the portion of the Constitution that affirms your claim.
I know that, however that does not in anyway imply that the Federal government gets to decide AG policy on how local livestock is to be treated. A ban on eggs from outside California is another matter.
That's a California problem; let them stew in their own mess. They're not interfering with INTERState commerce.
If the other 49 States don't like California's idiocy, the answer is to increase egg farming OUTSIDE of California.
“Unconstitutionally”? It’s none of the Feds’ business if CA wants to set laws on this. The real jump in egg prices came from the bird flu scam.
I agree. I answered in haste thinking Trump wanted California to change its law on California eggs and poultry. Mea Culpa.
No, this has been going on a while. It is not lawful. And I can’t understand why agricultural states haven’t raised a ruckus.
California government is free, I guess, to dictate how poultry are raised within their state. But they cannot tell other states how to raise their poultry in their states. They are claiming other states cannot sell their eggs in California, unless they comply with California poultry laws.
If Californians see eggs for sale at $12 versus $3, guess what they are likely going to buy? They want to prevent consumers from voting their wallet, too.
“size of the California market forces their BS on other states.
That’s unconstitutional.”
no the continual and blatant abuse of the commerce clause is unconstitutional. The size of CA market is irrelevant this is a state’s right’s issue. It amazes me so called conservatives get all rah rah rah when the Fed’s trounce all over state’s right’s when it’s a State they don’t like. The hypocrisy is mind numbing. Just proves some people are Aholes and really just want government to push around people they don’t like. Turn the tables say on gun rights and cry to the heaven’s that the Fed’s are too over reaching.
These laws are good for animal welfare, every animal should have enough space to turn around and at least sit down. If that raises the cost of eggs or bacon and retired boomers have to muh pay more then so be it. Sows only need a birthing box for the first few weeks once the piglets are weaned there is no reason to keep her in such a cage.
Chickens in battery cages , crap all down the backs of the ones under them it how you get salmonella all over the eggs and it’s disgusting conditions to live in.
If you oppose animal welfare laws tuff these should be national laws, the EU already has these exact laws and their food I much healthier than our by far. It’s not even up for debate how much better food is in the EU without the slew of processed chemicals,synthetic colors ,preservatives, and sodium and nitrates allowed here for profit margins not the health benefits of the people.
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